Ghost of a tree

Back again to one of my fav subjects: At night this tree looked like a ghost. A little added vignette and a bit of a boost for the background to look like hellfire... Found this image unattended for in my collection when skimming for shots with the Nikon AF-S 35/1.4G. It's not the sharpest one shot at 1/30 sec handheld and at ISO 6400 - but I like it.

Back to orange

The thing with rusty metal is that it creates beautiful orange colors. So I revisited one of my favorite installations at the old King Ludwig Canal near Nuremberg. The autumn sun was shining bright and brought out all the lovely shades of orange on this sculpture. My goal was to render it as "flat" as possible to take the three-dimensionality away. So I went for 200mm focal length at f11 - and if I had a tripod with me I would have even gone to f16 or f22 to eliminate any hint of dof.
I just wanted color and some simple geometry combined with an interesting texture.